Exam question 1 · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

Which item did Little Thumb obtain from the Ogre's wife through a falsehood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: item, Little Thumb · What happens: do, obtain · To what, where: falsehood

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 item	det
2	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Thumb	amod
5	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	nsubj
6	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 wife	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ogre	det
9	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Ogre	case
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	obl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 falsehood	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 falsehood	det
14	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which item						tree rules
2	obtain	present	Little Thumb			a falsehood		from the Ogre's wife	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from wife=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

All the gold and silver she possessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gold	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possessed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silver	cc
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gold	conj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 possessed	nsubj
7	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	past	all gold and silver						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

All the gold and silver she possessed, hidden under the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gold	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possessed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silver	cc
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gold	conj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 possessed	nsubj
7	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hidden	punct
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 possessed	conj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 bed	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bed	det
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	past	all gold and silver						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	hide	participle	all gold and silver not said here			the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location

Option 3

All the gold and jewels she kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gold	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 jewels	cc
5	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gold	conj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	all gold and jewels					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Her coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 coins	nmod:poss
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		Her = she						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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